Thaddeus Stevens in the house and Charles sumner in the senate
a) usually nope, legislatures are highly prone to mistakes when drafting laws and it is very common for laws to be extremely unclear.
b) more importantly, courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, because of its interpretive skill and power can limit or expand laws.
In the Mayan religion, the gods controlled nature.
Jeanette Rankin was a pacifist, she would never vote for war. Rankin did the same in the 1940s, being the only one to vote against war versus japan in ww2
